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Attendees at the Rooster's Annual Dinner in Hall

Group photograph of Roosters and guests taken in Pump Court opposite K and L staircases. Some individuals in photograph have been named as Jack Nichols (on unicycle), Marta Ciechanowicz (wearing beret), Ian Blaney (wearing top hat) Luke Busbridge (with bongo drum).

The Roosters was founded in 1907 by a New Zealander called J. H. Allen as a light-hearted debating society. It celebrated its Bicentenary 184 years in advance "to save posterity the trouble"

Book containing minutes from 5 Nov. 1908 onwards. At the front is an elaborate coloured title page and list of members; then two pages have been cut out - presumably they were pages containing earlier minutes. After the series of minutes is a list of past and present members on active service, 1914. At the end of the volume are subscription records for 1909-14.

Total of £5 11s 3d paid to J Goode & Sons for work on rooms:
Letter C, No.1 = Bedroom painted 3 times, light sashes & frames, skirting
Letter C, No.2 = , light sashes, chimney piece painted, cleaning
Letter D, No.2 = Great Room painted, light sashes & frames, , chimney piece, cleaning
Letter E, No.2 = Dado 3 times
Letter H, No.3 = Door painted, Light sash both sides
Letter J, No.3 = Dado 3 times, chimney piece painted,
Letter L, No.3 = Coal bin varnished
Letter M, No.2 = Chimney piece and stove
Letter M, No.5 = Bedroom painted, skirting

Contains amounts paid for rooms and names of occupants.

11 x 13

The Master and Fellow of Jesus College To P. Chapman
Jan 12 Mondins Bogg Room
March 24 Mondins Bogg Room
May 28 Mondins (?) and Fellows garden
Nov 20 Mondins Fence in new garden
11 shillings

Includes report by Rattee and Kett on work required to improve roofs around College, June 1915;

Pencil drawing of roof plan with annotations and coloured mark ups. Scale: 1/8"

Comprises correspondence with Ronald Clark (biographer and science and technology correspondent for 'The Director') on arranging to see Bronowski to discuss science, and sending a copy of 'Britain's air defences suffered from personal dispute' by Clark (copy included but badly faded).

Also includes a list of Bronowski's publications to Sep 1969.

Includes:

(1) signed menus for Rooster dinners and events, 1944-8;

(2) menu for Jesus Boat Club Lent Races dinner, 1947;

(3) Jesus College Athletics Club dinner menu, June 1946;

(4) Jesus College Rugby Club dinner, November 1944;

(5) Jesus College rugby and jugernaut dinner, December 1945;

(6) Jesus College Rugby Club fixture cards, 1946-7;

(7) Photographs showing Hooper in school rugby team and possibly carrying out Home Guard or Officer Training Corps duties, c. 1943-47.

Correspondence of Ronald Tress with Christopher Brooke

19.2 x 28.9

Comprises correspondence between Bronowski and Shattuck, a tentative outline of a book by Shattuck entitled 'The Throwback: The Story of Joseph-Victor, Wild Boy of Aveyron', and a memorandum to the file about Shattuck.

[Shattuck was a researcher due to work at the Salk Institute with Bronowski, under the Council for Biology in Human Affairs].

Comprises correspondence relating to Brown (Department of Social Relations, Harvard University) being invited to be a Visiting Fellow at the Salk Institute (declined), with a list of publications by Brown and a brief biography from a grant application.

Administrative file created by Roger Bowers [Director of Music Studies] relating to the activities of the Music Society including: notices on performances; notes on concert organisation; correspondence about equipment being left in the music practice rooms; irregularities in music room bookings; notes about rock bands in the College; notice about the hours when amplified music could be practised; and a list of Music Society Committee Members and an outline of their roles and responsibilities

Comprises correspondence between Bronowski and Robin Scott on scheduling showings of 'The Ascent of Man' including disagreeing over the original time-slot. Also contains a letter from Sylvia Fitzgerald thanking Robin Scott for his help on the day that Bronowski died.

Manuscript & typescript paper of Robin Davis without accompanying correspondence

Comprises carbon copies of letters sent out by Robin Holliday whilst he was at the Salk Institute.

Robert Grosseteste's commentary on Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae, and other works; M. R. James's no. 70. Contains: 1) Roberti Grosthead Commentum in Boetium de Consolatione Philosophiae; 2) Recapitulacio metrorum consolacionis philosophice Anicij mallij Severini boecij exconsulis ordinarij; 3) Ambrosius de bono mortis; 4) Libellus hugonis de S. Victore de virtutibus et vicijs; 5) Libellus Magistri hugonis de S. Victore de consciencia; 6) Lucij annei senece ad callionem de remedijs fortuitorium; 7) P. ovidii Nasonis de Vetula liber tercius; 8) Incipit tractatus et causa quare singula volumina sua composuit iste ovidius; 9) Sequiture eciam prefacio leonis prothonotarij que preponitur isti libello ut cercius appareat quod ovidius erat eius auctor; 10) a page of writing in a different hand, the beginning of "Uestra nouit intentio. De scolarium disciplina compendiosum postulare tractatum" (a pseudo-Boethian tract).

Live recording of Gerhard's Violin Concerto (composed 1945) across eight sides of four lacquer disks. No annotations on sleeves, no details of performance, date or venue given.

Robert of Lincoln's Summa Justicia, in ten parts; M. R. James's no. 36. [Presumably this is a work by or atributed to Robert Grosseteste.]

Includes black and white photograph of Jennings, c. 1970; copy of biographical information from 'The New Chequers - the journal of the Friends of Lochnagar', 1999;

Transcript of document at the National Archives in which Rat(c)lyff is mentioned

Contains exhibition guide, research notes on creation of exhibition and exhibition labels

Comprises correspondence with Professor Robert Karplus (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley) about sending Bronowski publications from the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (included), trying to arrange to meet, and Karplus including an abridged version of Bronowski's Damon lecture ('Science in the New Humanism') in a book on 'Models in Physics'.

Also includes a reprint of 'Discovery or Invention?' by Karplus and J. Myron Aitkin.

Contains recording of speeches and choral performances at Mair's farewell dinner, 7th July2011;

Manuscripts and typescripts of Robert Seaman

Correspondence from Robert Seaman to Ian Stewart

Receipt from Robert Emson for £5 18s 6d for managing labour and payment done on College properties

With two typed transcriptions of the letter.

Copy of will from the National Archives

File containing:

(1) letter from Thomas Porter (Surveyor to the College) to J.H.H. Goodwin (Bursar) giving a report on his inspection of the roadway at the back of Rhadegund Buildings
(2) Report as to the improvement of the roadway at the back of Rhadegund Buildings and the requisite repairs to two pairs of iron folding gates , 12 July 1910
(3) 7 letters complaining about the roadway, 23 March 1908 - 6 October 1914

Bill and receipt for 10 loads of road stones/gravel for £10 1s.

Invoice from William Langford to Rev Dr French for working the road from the 25th of March to the 25th of June 1831. Total of £2. Signed with Langford's mark.

Paid £1 12s 6d to Thomas Lee for making a new road from the end of the new cottages to the Master's stable yard and for providing vegetable plants and seeds including 200 celery plants, 260 broccoli savoy etc, 1 qt of frame peas, ½ pint of spinach seed, ½oz of cabbage seed, 2 sorts of lettuce seeds.